Furqan Nazeeri is founder and CEO of Viridus, Inc., an online network focused on corporate sustainability. He came to sustainability early in life. At 14, his family was the only one in the neighborhood with a compost pile, a 3-acre “garden” and a refurbished pre-war Cushman electric car. Later at the University of Michigan, he was captain of the national champion UofM solar car team (the car is now on permanent display at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry). After graduation, he was a key part of the team that designed and built REVA, the largest selling plug-in passenger electric vehicle in the world. Furqan is an entrepreneur who founded numerous successful technology businesses, including Pivot, Inc. a revolutionary collaboration platform for Wall Street traders. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds a BSE in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan. Furqan blogs on entrepreneurship and venture capital on his personal blog.

Asheen A. Phansey is the President of Quaking Aspen, LLC. He has dedicated his career to sustainable industrial growth, and the innovative materials, processes and business models that will get us there. In this pursuit Asheen draws on his background of technology and management roles in biotechnology, aerospace and software, and deep expertise in sustainable business. He has traveled the country giving talks on Nature-inspired business models, including guest lecturing for Hunter Lovins in her Principles of Sustainability class at the Presidio School of Management.  He founded Quaking Aspen to help companies grow their “triple top line” with innovation that simultaneously creates revenue growth, positive socioeconomic impact, and ecological restoration. Asheen is also a dedicated member of Net Impact, the international organization for socially- and environmentally-responsible business, and serves as the President of the Boston professional chapter.  
Asheen holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA, Technology Entrepreneurship from the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.
 

Sarah Di Troia joined New Profit as Director of Strategic Partnerships in March 2006. In addition to overseeing foundation and other strategic partnerships, Sarah works closely with several of New Profit’s portfolio organizations.

Prior to coming to New Profit, Sarah was Associate Director at the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), a nonprofit dedicated to assessing and improving the overall performance of philanthropic foundations. Sarah oversaw CEP’s internal operations and led the Foundation Governance Project, which identified key challenges and effective practices in foundation governance. Before joining CEP in April 2004, Sarah was a Principal at Axxon Capital, a $54 million venture fund focused on women- and minority-led companies. Sarah also spent several years working with start-up organizations in a variety of industries as Vice President of Ventures at the Cambridge Incubator and as a consultant with the Parthenon Group.

Sarah serves on the steering committee of the New Group at The Institute of Contemporary Art
in Boston.

Sarah graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in history with honors and went
on to earn a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1998.

Dr. Paul Mulligan is an associate professor in the Technology, Operations and Information Management Division at Babson College. He teaches cross-functional courses that integrate the study of information technology and operations in the core curriculum of Babson’s MBA program. He also teaches graduate and undergraduate electives in service industry management. Dr. Mulligan spent 17 years in industry prior to beginning his academic career. The majority of his corporate experience is in the systems development and operations areas. Most recently, he served as Director of Systems Development and Vice President of Operations Research at Fidelity Investments.

Dr. Mulligan’s primary research interests are in technology and service industry management with particular focus on the role of information technology in services process management, service operations strategy, and organizational transformation. He is the co-author of organizational change and operations strategy papers that appear in California Management Review and Long Range Planning. His most recent publication focuses on the interaction between information technology and task-level service components in financial services. Findings from this research were published in a special issue of The International Journal of Service Industry Management and in Information and Management. He is currently researching the impact of internet technology on industry and organizational structure in financial services.

Dr. Mulligan’s executive education experience includes programs with Fidelity Investments Retirement Services Company, Fidelity Capital, MetLife, Thompson Financial, the International Fund for Ireland, the Stockholm School of Economics, and the Master’s Program on Loyalty-based Management.

Education
B.A., M.B.A., Boston University
Ph.D., Boston University

Expertise
Information Technology
Information Technology
Operations
Financial and Professional Services
Service Operations Strategy

Dwight Gertz is a member of the Executive Management Team of Celerant Consulting, where he is responsible for Human Resources, Leadership Development, and Executive Education.

He was previously a partner at Bain & Company, head of the Boston Office of Mercer Management Consulting, and CEO of Symmetrix, Inc. His 1995 book “Grow to be Great: Breaking the Downsizing Cycle” was published by Simon & Schuster and released in fourteen printings in six languages.

Professor Gertz’ international experience also includes active and reserve service with the US Navy, where he retired with the rank of Captain.

Babson College

Title
Full Time Lecturer in Management 

Education 
BA, Yale College 1973
MBA, Harvard Business School 1980 

Expertise 
Strategy
Global Strategy

Currently the Dean of the Graduate School (interim) and The Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College, Cohen previously served seven years as Chief Academic Officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes, then returned to the faculty to teach leadership, change and negotiations.  He is a noted author, speaker and consultant.

Dr. Cohen is the co-author of the best seller, Managing for Excellence, (recently re-issued by Wiley as a Management Classic), and Power Up; Transforming Organizations through Shared Leadership, also with David Bradford, was published in 1998, and selected as one of the best leadership books of 1998 by the Management General website.  Their classic, Influence Without Authority has been revised and released in April 2005. Among his many publications is a co-authored textbook, Effective Behavior in Organizations (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 7 editions, last 2000), which has been adopted by more than 300 colleges, and has had a major impact on the teaching of organizational behavior. He also co-authored the award-winning  Alternative Work Schedules:  Integrating Individual and Organizational Needs.  Dr. Cohen edited The Portable MBA in Management (Wiley, 2^nd ed. 2002). 

Dr. Cohen’s consulting clients for a variety of change projects have included IBM, General Electric (Work Out), Rohm and Haas, Exel, The Hartford, Polaroid, Home Depot, Reebok, Decision Resources, General Scanning, General Mills, Chubb Life, SmithKline Beecham, Digital Equipment Corporation, MITRE, DSM, and Sulzer Infra.  A member of the Social Venture Network, he is on the Sohodojo Advisory Board (“Home of the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries”); the advisory board of CellMark Global/Mili Multimedia Afghanistan;  and served on the Sulzer Infra Academy Advisory Board.

A popular speaker, he has given speeches and seminars to such organizations as Royal Bank of Canada, Pfizer, IBM, CSC, Rockport, Nypro, New Balance, Serono, Mellon Private Bank, American Productivity Management Association, Digital Equipment Corporate Leaders Forum, Chase Bank, Westcott Communications, Center for Quality Management, Lafarge, and AT&T on:

·      Leadership:  Creating Extraordinary Performance

·      Influence Without Authority; Getting Things Done

·      Implementing Strategic Change

·      Family Business

Formerly the J. R. Carter Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Cohen was director of the Whittemore School’s M.B.A. program from 1974-1979, where he was voted outstanding faculty member.

Dr. Cohen helped create the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.  He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a consultant in London and Austria, and a guest seminar leader at IMEDE (now IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland.  He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a guest lecturer at Stanford Business School.  Recently he completed a two year term as chair of the Business Accreditation Committee of the AACSB. 

Dr. Cohen earned an A.B. from Amherst College and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard Business School. 

Prior to pursuing graduate studies, Eleni worked for TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony, a market influence analytics company that monitors traditional and social media (blogs and social networks) to gain consumer insights. She was the first point of contact for marketing, public relations and research professionals from Fortune 1000 corporations who were interested in purchasing services.

Eleni is a 2009 candidate for a Master of Business Administration degree in the Global Management program at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. She also received her undergraduate degree from Babson in May 2004. She is an active member of the college community, volunteering her time to programs such as Women’s Leadership and Coaching for Leadership & Teamwork.

Outside of school, Eleni enjoys travelling, spinning and cooking.

Matt Lauzon founded Paragon Lake in 2006 as a student at Babson College. Lauzon enrolled at Babson because of its reputation as the number one school in the world for entrepreneurship education and leveraged all the college had to offer while exploring various business opportunities. Paragon Lake was born when Lauzon and a fellow student uncovered a niche in the jewelry industry at the intersection of e-commerce and mass customization. Serving as co-founder and CEO, Lauzon took Paragon Lake from an idea incubating in a Babson dormitory to become an institutionally funded company in just two years.

Lauzon created a leadership team that includes industry veterans from both the software and jewelry spaces and built a national network of independent jewelers that use Paragon Lake’s proprietary platform to drive made-to-order sales in their stores. In addition to building the team and driving growth, Lauzon led the company through two rounds of institutional funding totaling over $6M in financing from Highland Capital Partners and Canaan Partners.

Lauzon earned a B.S. in Business Management from Babson College where he was an Arthur M. Blank Scholar. At Babson, he was named one of “America’s Top Entrepreneurs Under the Age of 25” by BusinessWeek, was the winner of the John H. Muller Jr. Business Plan Competition, and was awarded the Shelby Cullom Davis prize for social entrepreneurship.

Will Robinson serves on the Innovation Team at Advanta where he spends his days focused on supporting entrepreneurs through ideablob.com. Before joining Advanta Will wound his way through a major law firm, clerked for a Federal Judge, served as Director of Legislation for a Philadelphia City Councilman and advised startups through an SBA Small Business Development Center. As a freshman in high school, he met a beautiful varsity soccer player and married her 11 years later. Their son has extremely chubby legs, a heart-melting smile and recently made “dog” his first word. Will has a BA in English and Peace Studies from Colgate, and a JD/MBA from Temple University. Between degrees, he taught middle school special education in rural Louisiana for three years through Teach For America. Will plans to spend the rest of his life working at the intersection of doing well and doing good.

Trish Costello
Director, The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship

Trish Costello’s professional background includes entrepreneurial, corporate, non-profit and academic experience. She is recognized internationally for her pioneering work in educating and preparing venture capital investment partners, through the prestigious Kauffman Fellows Program. As the founding CEO and now CEO Emeritus of the Center for Venture Education, she expanded the Kauffman Fellows education program to venture capitalists in 10 countries on four continents. Costello was on the start-up team of the Kauffman Foundation’s entrepreneurship center, where for eight years she directed its efforts in venture capital, angel investing, entrepreneur support programs, and programming to accelerate high potential women entrepreneurs. She played a leading role nationally in obtaining greater financial equity investments in women’s businesses and in funding initiatives supporting high-growth women entrepreneurs, including Springboard and The Diana Project.

Costello continues to serve as President of CVE Capital Corp, a holding company affiliated with a $250 million VC fund of funds created to endow the Kauffman Fellows Program. Her prior experience includes developing small business products and marketing strategies at the initial divestiture of the Bell System and launching medical ventures for an investor group of twenty prominent children’s hospitals as Executive Vice President of the start-up Child Health Corporation of America.

She serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Science Foundation for its Small Business Innovation Research Grants. She was an advisor to the Small Business Administration on its work with entrepreneurs under President Bill Clinton and served on the Small Business Administration Transition Committee under President George W. Bush. She has served on numerous boards and advisory committees to entrepreneurial organizations and institutes, including the National Venture Capital Association, the International Business Forum, and the Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program. Costello’s free time centers on 17 year old twin daughters.

Bob Shapiro is a Co-founder and Managing Director of Sandbox Industries. At Sandbox Industries, he co-leads all healthcare start-up initiatives. Prior to Sandbox Industries, Mr. Shapiro was the Chairman of Pharmacia Corporation, Chairman and CEO of Monsanto Company, CEO of The NutraSweet Company, and Vice President and General Counsel of G.D. Searle & Company. He is currently a Director of the NYSE Euronext (parent of the New York Stock Exchange and other global exchanges) and Theranos (venture capital backed). Previously, he served as Director of Citigroup, Rockwell International, Sequus Pharmaceuticals and Silicon Graphics (venture capital backed).

He holds a AB from Harvard College and JD from Columbia University School of Law.

Anirudh Dhebar has taught at the Harvard Business School and the Sloan School of Management at MIT. His research focuses on the dynamic interplay between technology, product policy, pricing, and marketing strategy in the computer, semiconductor, telecommunication, consumer-electronics, life-science, information-content, and financial-services industries. He has published numerous Harvard Business School case studies, and articles stemming from his research appear in Marketing Science, Journal of Product Innovation and Management, Sloan Management Review, Journal of Retailing, and European Management Journal. His article, “Rethinking Executive Education,” appears in the journal Training and Development.

Recipient of the Thomas Kennedy Award for Teaching Excellence at the graduate level for three consecutive years (2002-2005), Anirudh is a highly experienced and effective management educator. He teaches in Babson’s graduate program as well as several of the college’s custom executive-development offerings.

Areas of expertise include high technology marketing, technology and product strategy, pricing strategy and tactics, and management of the technology-intensive enterprise.

Education
B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology
M.B.A., Indian Institute of Management
A.M., Ph.D., Stanford University

Expertise
Marketing
High Technology Marketing
Pricing
Technology and Product Strategy
 

Roger E. Glickman is co-founder, president and chief executive officer of Great Circle Family Foods, the exclusive franchisee and area developer for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts in Southern California. He brings more than 20 years of management, food service, retail and real estate experience to the company. Under Roger’s stewardship, the Krispy Kreme brand entered the Southern California market, solidified itself as a part of [national] pop culture, and quickly garnered more than 50% of regional doughnut market share. Roger fostered that rapid growth while maintaining a unique, “family” culture. He created systems that have yielded recognized excellence in operations execution and unit-level profitability. GCFF became one of the first and most serious victims of the Krispy Kreme franchising scheme. Roger confronted those challenges head on, devising and implementing a restructuring plan that has produced a vast reduction in liabilities, system-leading positive sales trends and sustainable profitability.

Roger was chief executive officer of A.O. One, LLC, the first franchisee of Noodles & Company. He served as director of real estate for Sony Retail Entertainment’s Sony/Loews Theatres division, and he has been a licensed Real Estate Broker in California since 1991.

Roger was honored to chair the 2005 Young Presidents’ Organization International Restaurant Industry Roundtable. He was named one of Franchise Times’ “20 to Watch” in 2002, Orange County Metro Magazine named him one of the “Hot 25” in 1999. He was awarded a Certificate of Achievement from the Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation Manager’s Training Program in 1998. He is a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Young Presidents’ Organization.

Roger earned an MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996. He completed his BS degree in Entrepreneurial Studies from Babson College in 1989.

Breakout Session Two
11:00AM - 12:15PM / Olin Auditorium

This panel will focus on how big businesses need to operate with entrepreneurial spirit to capitalize on opportunities, as well as how entrepreneurs can thrive inside large organizations by leading change. The panel will draw from the vast knowledge and experience of the speakers as they outline how they have been able to achieve change, success, initiatives and profits.

Moderator Allan Cohen Dean of Graduate School The Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership Babson College	Bob Shapiro Former CEO of The NutraSweet Co. Co-Founder Sandbox Industries	Reed Wilcox Founding Partner & Senior Managing Director General Resonance	Ingo Angermeier President & CEO Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System

Bob Caspe has served as CEO of several companies that he founded, in several industries. These include: medical electronics, machine vision, graphic arts, photojournalism, and consumer electronics. These companies have developed, under Bob’s leadership, everything from integrated computer system products and software, to embedded systems and custom integrated circuits. Common threads throughout all of these companies are the fields of signal processing and imaging.

Bob has an engineering background and has expertise as a software and hardware designer. As well he has a solid theoretical understanding of many signal processing algorithms.

Professional Experience
2003 – Present
The Caspe Group LLC ( http://www.caspegroup.com )
Sherborn, MA 10770
Founder and President. The Caspe Group is a consulting organization that assists corporations with marketing, sales and product development and overseas manufacturing. As well, the Caspe Group performs due diligence reviews for venture investors.

1995 - 2003
Sound Vision, Inc
Framingham, MA 01701
Founder and President. Sound Vision is a new Massachusetts company built with many of the same members of Leaf. Sound Vision introduced the world’s first 800k pixel CMOS digital camera. It then produced the world’s first ARM ASIC specifically designed for low cost digital cameras. In 2001, Sound Vision created a series of TVcentric digital image viewing products that were sold through a number of OEM resellers. In 2002, SVI pioneered the creation of innovative television direct marketing channels for digital cameras in order to expand the market to new, less PC capable, customers.

1986 - 1995
Leaf Systems, Inc
Southboro, MA 01701
Co-Founder and President. Leaf Grew to over 30M in sales without the need for any external financing and was subsequently sold in 1992 to Scitex, Inc., a public corporation. Leaf successfully dominated the photojournalism market with innovation in image processing equipment used by newspapers and magazines. Leaf also lead the field of digital photography with several innovative products.

1974 - 1986
CDA, Inc
Waltham, MA 01701
Co-Founder and President. CDA grew to over 15M in sales and was subsequently sold to Analogic Inc., a public corporation. CDA lead the array processor market with the first microprocessor based array processor which was sold to several CAT and MRI system manufacturers. CDA developed a direct end user business with its own
innovative Nuclear Medicine System which was subsequently licensed to Siemens Medical Systems. CDA was venture financed by several large venture capital firms.

1971 - 1984
Signal Processing Systems, Inc
Waltham, MA 01701
Lead hardware engineer for the development of a programmable Array Processor. SPS was a small startup.

1969 - 1971
GTE Sylvania, Inc
Needham, MA 01701
Engineer working on signal processor designs.

Education
1965 - 1969
New York University School of Engineering and Science BSEE, 1969, Member of Etta Kappa Nu, engineering honor society.

Organizations

2005 – Present
MIT Venture Mentoring Services – Mentor to entrepreneurs

2005 – Present
Babson College MBA Entrepreneurship Program – Mentor to entrepreneurs

1994 - 2001
Sherborn Dollars for Scholars, Director

Awards

Wynton J. Lemmon Award
Award for technical contribution to Photojournalism
SBANE Entrepreneur of the Year
Award for leadership in small business
Seybold Product Concept of the Year
Award for the development of the HDR concept in publishing

The Arts

Mr. Caspe is an accomplished artist who works in a variety of media including watercolor, oil, wood, photography, ceramics, copper and, most recently, glass.

Some of his works can be view on his personal website
http://www.betweenthebeads.com

Candida G. Brush is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and holder of the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She is also Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division.
She is a visiting adjunct Professor to the Norwegian School of Engineering and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Formerly, Dr. Brush was an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, founder and Director of the Council for Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CWEL), and Research Director for the Entrepreneurial Management Institute at Boston University. Dr. Brush teaches courses in Entrepreneurship in the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and Executive MBA programs. For two years, she was a Research Affiliate to Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden. She received her DBA from Boston University, an MBA from Boston College and a BA from the University of Colorado.

She is a founding member of the Diana Project International, a research collaborative of scholars from 20 countries studying growth and financing strategies of women entrepreneurs world-wide. With her four co-researchers, she was named the 2007 recipient of the FSF- Swedish Research Foundation International Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Entrepreneurship. Prentice Hall- Financial Times published their book, Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses (2004). Dr. Brush is the author of seven books, 20 book chapters and 90 articles published in scholarly journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Executive, and Annals of Political and Social Science. She is an Editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and serves on the editorial review boards for Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Business Horizons and the International Journal of Female Entrepreneurship. She has written book chapters for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on women’s entrepreneurship and economic development.

Dr. Brush was on the founding team for the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) a national study exploring start-up processes of nascent entrepreneurs, and was a co-recipient of the National Science Foundation Award as part of this research. She is the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Mentor Award, given by the National Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division in recognition for her support and mentorship of doctoral students and new faculty researchers in the Entrepreneurship field. In 2008, she was inducted as a 21st Century Scholar by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. She has served on more than 14 PhD dissertation committees and mentored more than 25 doctoral students. Dr. Brush was one of 18 researchers selected to participate in the 1995 White House Conference Research Project: The Future of Small Business and Entrepreneurship into the Year 2010, and was recognized by INC Magazine in 1995 as one of the top 16 researchers in Entrepreneurship in the US. In 1997 she was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) and served for 3 years. She is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women’s Business Research and Children Without Borders (Costa Rica) and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Women in Enterprise. She is a member of the Boston Harbor Angels and an active angel investor, serving on several boards of early stage private companies. She has advised hundreds of student businesses and new venture teams over the past 20 years.

Anne Donnellon
Faculty Director, Babson Fast Track MBA
Associate Professor, Management

Dr. Donnellon teaches leadership, negotiation, and teamwork in Babson’s MBA and executive education programs. She also serves as the faculty director for the Fast Track MBA program. The author of Team Talk: The Power of Language in Team Dynamics, published by Harvard Business School Press, she has also developed with them, two books in the Harvard ManageMentor series: Keeping Teams on Target and Leading Teams. She has also published numerous journal articles, book chapters, and teaching cases.

Dr. Donnellon teaches in many executive education programs in both the U.S. and abroad and has consulted to numerous companies including AT&T; Bell Northern; Chubb & Son; Dow Chemical Co.; EMC; LexisNexis; Pfizer; and Siemens. She has worked with several small entrepreneurial firms and led management development seminars for entrepreneurs through the Small Business Association of New England, the Center for Women and Enterprise, and the International Fund for Ireland. Dr. Donnellon has taught at Harvard Business School and the University of Colorado.

Dr. Donnellon earned her B.A. at the University of Cincinnati, her M.A. at Columbia University, and her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Donnellon’s areas of expertise include teams, negotiation, organizational change, diversity, and women’s leadership.

Susan’s clients include large, established corporate clients; both privately held and publicly traded, as well as start ups in various sectors. She counsels entrepreneurs on how to properly structure a new entity, manages the daily corporate governance issues and advises senior management on their strategies and transactions. Susan routinely advises private equity funds on the structuring of their investments, the management of their portfolio companies and follow-on investments. In addition to her corporate practice, Susan has extensive experience in the area of finance, including private equity financing, senior and subordinated financing from both the investor and lender side and the company and borrower side. Susan is one of the few attorneys in the United States who represents providers of precious metals consignment facilities.

Susan is the founder and chair of the Women’s Networking Group at the Firm. Under Susan’s guidance, the organization is now one of the largest networking organizations in the Northeast. Susan is a co-founder of the Women’s Association of Venture & Equity, a national organization for women in venture capital and private equity.
Notable Experience
Susan represented a U.S. public company in the $650 million sale of its business to a foreign, publicly traded company.

Susan represented a co-arranger/agent/lead financial institution in a $200 million credit facility, which included a senior and subordinated financing and a public debt offering.

Susan represented an international corporate client in a U.S. initial public offering which raised $42 million.

Susan represented a communications client in a $1.4 billion merger of its cable business, initial public offering which raised $120 million and subsequent $1.6 billion sale of its business.

Susan represented a venture capital firm in several rounds of a $37 million total investment.

More Examples…
Recent Speaking Engagements and Publications
“Ask the Experts Panel,” Springboard Private Equity Workshop, New York City, February 2005.

“Venture Capital Financing for Women Entrepeneurs,” Financial Women’s Association, November 2004.

“Creating and Maintaining Successful Women’s Networks,” Babson College Women’s Leadership Conference, October 2004.

“Recapitalization of Hedge Funds and Related Private Equity Vehicles,” 100 Women in Hedge Funds, New York, NY, December 2003.

“Limited Liability Companies: Advising Small Business Start-Ups and Larger Companies in Rhode Island,” co-presenter.

“Basic Legal Considerations When Starting Your Own Business,” Women Mean Business Guide from the Rhode Island Secretary of State.

More Publications…
Besides Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Susan spends a considerable amount of time counseling women business owners and women entrepreneurs. Her efforts resulted in receiving the 2002 Women in Business Advocate of the Year Award for Rhode Island and New England from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Susan was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Center for Women’s Business Research, a Washington, D.C. based organization that is the premier source of data about women business owners. Susan is also the chairperson of the Advisory Board for the Center for Women & Enterprise and teaches classes on corporate and venture capital law to their clients.

Susan is a Partner in Social Venture Partners of Rhode Island, a collaborative community of experienced business professionals focused on advancing the non-profit sector and effecting social change in the community. She is the chair of its Loan Fund.

Susan is also involved in Springboard Venture Capital Forum, an annual venture forum where women entrepreneurs present to the venture community.

Outside the legal community, Susan is very active in the community as a board member and Past President of First Night Providence and a board member of Vision Education & Media. She is an alumna of Leadership Rhode Island. Susan currently sits on the Board of Directors of Trinity Repertory Theater.

Susan served on the Board of Directors of Nestor, Inc., a publicly traded company that provides systems and services for traffic management and safety. She served on the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee, of which she was the chairperson.

Candida G. Brush is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and holder of the Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College. She is also Chair of the Entrepreneurship Division.

She is a visiting adjunct Professor to the Norwegian School of Engineering and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. Formerly, Dr. Brush was an Associate Professor of Strategy and Policy, founder and Director of the Council for Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CWEL), and Research Director for the Entrepreneurial Management Institute at Boston University. Dr. Brush teaches courses in Entrepreneurship in the undergraduate, MBA, doctoral, and Executive MBA programs. For two years, she was a Research Affiliate to Jonkoping International Business School, Jonkoping, Sweden. She received her DBA from Boston University, an MBA from Boston College and a BA from the University of Colorado.

She is a founding member of the Diana Project International, a research collaborative of scholars from 20 countries studying growth and financing strategies of women entrepreneurs world-wide. With her four co-researchers, she was named the 2007 recipient of the FSF- Swedish Research Foundation International Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Entrepreneurship. Prentice Hall- Financial Times published their book, Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High Growth Businesses (2004). Dr. Brush is the author of seven books, 20 book chapters and 90 articles published in scholarly journals including Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Academy of Management Executive, and Annals of Political and Social Science. She is an Editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and serves on the editorial review boards for Journal of Business Venturing, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Business Horizons and the International Journal of Female Entrepreneurship. She has written book chapters for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), and the International Labor Organization (ILO) on women’s entrepreneurship and economic development.

Dr. Brush was on the founding team for the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics (PSED) a national study exploring start-up processes of nascent entrepreneurs, and was a co-recipient of the National Science Foundation Award as part of this research. She is the recipient of the Entrepreneurship Mentor Award, given by the National Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division in recognition for her support and mentorship of doctoral students and new faculty researchers in the Entrepreneurship field. In 2008, she was inducted as a 21st Century Scholar by the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers. She has served on more than 14 PhD dissertation committees and mentored more than 25 doctoral students. Dr. Brush was one of 18 researchers selected to participate in the 1995 White House Conference Research Project: The Future of Small Business and Entrepreneurship into the Year 2010, and was recognized by INC Magazine in 1995 as one of the top 16 researchers in Entrepreneurship in the US. In 1997 she was appointed by the Secretary of Defense to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) and served for 3 years. She is on the Board of Directors of the Center for Women’s Business Research and Children Without Borders (Costa Rica) and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Women in Enterprise. She is a member of the Boston Harbor Angels and an active angel investor, serving on several boards of early stage private companies. She has advised hundreds of student businesses and new venture teams over the past 20 years.

Mr. Woolley has been active in microfinance for over a decade and serves on the Executive Board and is  Treasurer of Unitus, one the world’s leading microfinance networks.  He ‘s the CEO of Unitus Investment Group (UIG), a for-profit entity forming and growing investor driven funds in debt, equity, investment banking, housing and investment that provide products to the poor.  UIG is based in San Francisco and overseas existing and new funds totaling more than $500 million.  He Chairs and co-founded  the Unitus Equity Fund, one of the most financially successful microfinance funds of all times.  Chester also sits on the Board of  both SKS, India’s largest microfinance bank and Samhita, one of it’s newest.

Other social oriented work includes founding and Chairing the University Venture Fund , a $20 million  student run venture fund based at the U of Utah. He was a founder of the NAMES Project (AIDS Quilt) and its Chairman for many years. 

His for-profit background is in venture capital with business titles include Founding Partner of Dominion Ventures, Inc. , Chairman and Founder of European Venture Partner (now Kreos) and China Venture Finance, Chairman of MACC (public private equity firm)  and advisor/partner to a number of other European and US private equity firms.  He founded Dominion in 1985 at the age of twenty-four, he’s  the youngest person to found an institutional based private equity fund.   He also oversees the State of Utah private equity investment programs and founded one of Eastern Europe’s largest financial companies. 

His career highlight is being  one of the “Romper Room” kids on the 1960’s children show. He lives between Boston, SF and Cape Town and watches most movies on planes.

Initiative & Creativity:  These are the key characteristics that define Peter’s entrepreneurial behavior.  At the age of 10, Peter ordered business cards and went door-to-door promoting his window washing business.  At Bucknell University, he started his own mobile disc jockey business serving campus events.  Now at Babson, Peter has taken the initiative to assist incoming students, creating the “Unofficial Guide to the Boston area for Babson Students.” 

Peter has served in sales & marketing roles in three industries: global container shipping, technology, and financial services.  In the late 90s, Peter thrived in the fast-paced environment of three technology startups in the San Francisco Bay area, focused on network security, satellite IP networking, and Latin America M&A data services. 

At the age of 39, Peter was fortunate to receive a Babson Fellowship and is thoroughly enjoying the opportunities offered by Babson.  His summer internship involved research of the smart card industry in the USA. 

In his spare time Peter is very active in his relative communities.  He recently completed a four-year term on the Bucknell University Alumni Association Board of Directors, and has also served as Co-Chair for New England Alumni Admissions and Chair for the Class of ’91 Annual Giving Campaign.  This summer, he accepted the role of President of the Bucknell Alumni Club of Boston.  Peter and his wife live in Wellesley, where he has served for over six years on both the Wellesley Trails Committee and the Wellesley Conservation Council. 

His contributions to the 2008 Babson Forum on Entrepreneurship & Innovation include highlighting the entrepreneurial achievements of Babson Alumni.

An accomplished social entrepreneur with expertise in health care, labor issues and public policy, Cheryl Dorsey was named President of Echoing Green in May 2002. She is the first Echoing Green Fellow to lead this global nonprofit, which has awarded more than $27 million in start-up capital to over 450 social entrepreneurs worldwide since 1987.

Dorsey received her education at Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges where she earned a degree in history and science in 1985. In 1992, while training to be a pediatrician at Harvard Medical School, she received an Echoing Green Fellowship. With it, she launched the Family Van, a community-based mobile health unit that provides basic health care and outreach services to at-risk residents of inner-city Boston neighborhoods.

As a public policy innovator, Cheryl served as a White House Fellow from 1997-1998, serving as Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, advising the Clinton Administration on health care and other issues. She was later named Special Assistant to the Director of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Labor Department, where she helped develop family-friendly workplace policies and spearheaded the labor secretary’s pay equity initiative.

Cheryl serves on the board of the Coro New York Leadership Center, City Year (national), DonorsChoose.org, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO), and Freelancers Insurance Company, Inc., a for-profit insurance company and subsidiary of Working Today. She also serves as an advisory board member of the Action Tank for Social Entrepreneurs, America Forward, and the Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation. Dorsey is a 2006 Henry Crown Fellow through the Aspen Institute, a 2007 Prime Mover Fellow through the Hunt Alternatives Fund, and a member of the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Visiting Committee.

Cheryl has received numerous awards and honors for her commitment to public service, including the Pfizer Roerig History of Medicine Award, the Robert Kennedy Distinguished Public Service Award and the Manuel C. Carballo Memorial Prize. She holds a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard-Radcliffe Colleges, an M.D. from the Harvard Medical School and an M.P.P. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government. She writes and speaks widely on minority affairs, social justice, social entrepreneurship, and maternal and child health issues.

Why do you do what you do?

wdydwyd sign: Champion Change!

We are at a moment in history where we truly have all of the resources we need to take on and solve some of our toughest social problems. We also have a cadre of committed social change agents, such as the Echoing Green Fellows, who are fully dedicated to leading the charge to end poverty, homelessness, educational inequity, global warming, etc. They are leading a quiet revolution, a revolution for positive social change and I truly believe that in my lifetime, we’ll see the end of some of these terrible afflictions that rob people of equal opportunity and hope.

What drew you to work at Echoing Green?

I’ve been a member of the Echoing Green community for many years. In 1991, while a graduate student at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, an advisor told me about a new fellowship program called the Echoing Green Public Service Fellowship. At the time I was working with my mentor, Dr. Nancy E. Oriol, to start a new community-based health program called The Family Van. I went to the informational meeting for that new fellowship program and, intrigued, applied to Echoing Green for support in starting my organization. Getting the Echoing Green Fellowship, becoming a part of a community of like-minded social change agents, and receiving the advice and counsel of Echoing Green staff and fellows really changed my life. I’ve always been so grateful for that transformative experience—when I had the chance to continue working with Echoing Green as staff, I did not hesitate. I am honored everyday to work with an extraordinary community of social entrepreneurs who are truly moving the needle on some of our toughest social problems.

What book are you currently reading?

Maria Shriver’s Just Who Will You Be?. It’s a short book and a quick read. But it packs quite a punch for anyone and everyone who is still “seeking”—seeking answers, seeking direction, seeking some clarity in their lives. The idea for the book came out of a high school graduation speech she gave. Those in attendance told Maria what struck them about the speech was the question she posed. It wasn’t, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Rather it was, “Who will you be? Who is the person you want to be? Who are you?” For all those who search for lives of meaning, these are really the questions that count. It plays out in interesting ways, in particuar, for those attracted to careers in social change. Its about trying to live out your values through your work in a way that has integrity, impact, and balance. At the end of the book, Maria shares ten pledges she’s made to herself—actions (internal and external) that she uses to help keep her focused and centered on who she wants to be. She then provides readers with workbook space to complete their own pledges. I like that she provides the reflection space for this kind of self-awareness. It’s also acknowledgement that this journey is just that—a journey and a process.

What do you do for fun in your free time?

For anyone who knows me, this is an easy question. It’s all about my dog Josie. Any activity in which I can incorporate her is great fun! She’s adorable, sweet, ridiculous and wacky, all at the same time. My one wish is to work in a dog-friendly building so that I could bring her to work. (In lieu of that, we all make due at the Echoing Green offices by admiring adorable two-legged and four-legged creatures posted on our cute baby picture pin-up board and our cute pets pin-up board—a nice collection of dogs and cats and even drosophila)!

When was your last Be Bold moment?

A few weeks ago, I gave a speech at a leadership development conference. I was prepared to provide mostly concrete strategies and tools learned from working with the Echoing Green community. However, it became apparent to me pretty quickly that my audience was looking for not the nuts and bolts of the topic but the soul of it. How do you fail and get back up again? How do you struggle with dignity but continue to pursue your dreams? Being vulnerable and truthful about my own journey gave the audience permission to open up and have an honest and meaningful conversation about theirs. It was a tremendously moving experience for me and taught me so much about trust, support and the power of having faith in your vision.

In the next month, I plan to…

Plan a vacation. The Echoing Green team is one of the hardest-working teams with whom I’ve ever had the pleasure to work. They are so committed to the success of the Echoing Green fellows that they sometimes forget about their own needs. We preach work-life balance in the fellowship yet often don’t abide by our own entreaties. I am guilty as charged too. The work we all do is really a marathon and not a sprint. Self-care, nurturing other parts of our lives outside of work, and not taking everything so seriously all of the time are important things to remember. Hopefully, I will be doing all of those things this summer!!

Dr. Ellen Sheets directs Predictive’s clinical affairs and brings a deep clinical and regulatory perspective to the company. She joins Predictive from Hologic, Inc. and predecessor company Cytyc Corp., where she most recently served as Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President. Prior duties at the company included General Manager of the Breast Health Unit as well as Vice President of Clinical Affairs. Previously, Dr. Sheets served on the faculty at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School for over 10 years, most recently as Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of the Pap Smear Evaluation Center and Associate Director of Gynecologic Oncology.

Dr. Sheets received her undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, serving a residency there and at the University of Illinois, Chicago. She completed her gynecologic oncology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. She also has an MBA from the Stern School at New York University.

Dr. Sheets is the author of more than 65 peer reviewed manuscripts and is a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists, and the American Society of Clinical Oncology and is boarded both in Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as Gynecologic Oncology. She is a reviewer for multiple journals and has served as a Board Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Jamie Leventhal is the founder and CEO of Clio Designs Incorporated, a Watertown, MA-based designer, manufacturer and marketer of personal care consumer products.

Leventhal has been building companies since 1995, and following a couple of years away from the corporate world spent living abroad in London, England and in Lilongwe, Malawi, Leventhal returned to Boston to pursue what he believed to be an unexploited niche in the personal care segment…value-priced design.

Started in Boston in late-2002, Clio fuses small company passion for design, quality and innovation with big company economies and efficiencies to deliver products with world class design and performance at affordable prices.  The current range of products produced by Clio include personal care appliances and accessories, shaving preparations and skincare for men and women, and natural & organic skincare and cosmetics for women.

Products designed and manufactured by Clio are sold either under private-label or under a Clio brand in most major food, drug and mass-market retailers in North America as well as throughout Europe and Asia.

Leventhal lives in Boston, MA.

Reade more in a recent New York Times story here:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/business/media/04adco.html

Visit the Clio Designs Incorporated website here:

www.cliodesigns.com

Shawn is a senior at Babson College and has been working on an X-FME business www.MyZaics.com. He has just launched a myzaics application on Facebook. Shawn was the CEO of his FME business who donated $9,000 to the Boys and Girls club after just 12 weeks of operation. Shawn also contested in the Babson Case competition and led his team to second place.

Kevin is the Director of National Sales at Facebook, Inc. and Babson College Alumnus.

Kevin Colleran has been involved in online and offline business for over 12 years. He was named the 2002 “North East College Entrepreneur of the Year” in the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards by The Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization and has been given the national “College Entrepreneur Of The Year” Award by the College Television Network and Duck Head clothing company. Colleran was honored as one of the top “Youth Entrepreneurs of the Year” by the National Congress for Community Economic Development as well as being awarded the “Student Business Initiative Award” by Babson College. In 2001 Kevin was recognized by Ernst & Young as an honorary “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” in their annual entrepreneur awards. Kevin also represented the United States in a multi-year Youth Employment Initiative in conjunction with the World Economic Forum, The United Nations, and the Synergos Institute.

Currently, Kevin is part of Facebook.com, a social directory for high school and college students which has grown to become the 7th largest website on the internet in terms of monthly pageviews. Kevin was the first Sales Executive at Facebook and currently focuses on advertiser relationships within the Entertainment, Travel, Beverage, Health and Beauty, and Automotive industries. Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at colleges and universities. Facebook enables students to search for people at their school, find students who share similar interests or courses, look up friends of friends, network, and visualize their social network via photos. The international phenomenon has now grown to have nearly 80% of the US college market active on the site.

Beginning in 2004, Kevin was brought into Newark, New Jersey by a major philanthropist and given the task of creating nightlife in Newark by planning and opening various bars, restaurants, and clubs in the revitalized city. While working on this project, Colleran conceptualized, designed, and implemented GoNewarkU!, a series of more than 40 parties, concerts, and events in downtown Newark geared towards the 45,000 college students at Rutgers, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Seton Hall Law School, UMDNJ, and Essex County College.

In May 2002 Kevin began working in the music industry with senior executives of BMG Music International (parent of RCA, Arista, J, and Jive record labels) helping design programs to allow BMG to revolutionize the music industry in terms of improving the relationship between artists and record labels as well as trying to discover new technologies to allow record labels to avoid piracy. In July 2003 Kevin opened his New York consulting office to work with record labels including Arista Records in an effort to create strategic partnerships with corporations looking to use music in their marketing and promotional efforts. Kevin develops music sponsorships and marketing programs for clients such as Starbucks, 1-800Flowers, Princeton Review, US Air Force, LG Electronics and more utilizing his artist roster of Outkast, Pink, Santana, Avril, Dido, Sarah McLachlan, Usher, and others. Kevin has also been able to use his expertise of the music, entertainment, and sponsorship industries to become a consultant for a major nightclub and entertainment complex in Cancun Mexico.

While at Babson College, where he graduated in May 2003, Colleran founded the first undergraduate business incubator and launched several companies that he still runs today. Kevin is currently the co-CEO of BlabberForce Enterprises, Inc., a college marketing, promotions, and consulting firm which is the first undergraduate business coming out of Babson. BlabberForce is the parent company of ClubVibes Boston, one of the fastest growing nightlife entertainment portals in North America. Colleran’s business accomplishments helped him to make it to the final casting round of NBC’s ‘The Apprentice’ reality television show from a national applicant pool of over 215,000. Kevin used this experience to begin working with cast members from the entrepreneurial reality show show as well as exclusively managing cast members of “The Real Cancun”, New Line Cinema’s spring break reality movie which is credited as the first full length feature reality film.

Kevin has been interviewed by Newsweek, USA Today, Forbes, Inc., Yahoo Internet Life, Entrepreneur, ComputerWorld, and Ad Age magazines as well as being selected for the National WHO’S WHO in Executives and Professionals for the last six years.

in 2003, Kevin and 13 other award winning global student entrepreneurs wrote and published an entrepreneurial guidebook called “Student Entrepreneurs: 14 Undergraduate All-Stars Tell Their Stories” which features a chapter by Kevin called “Building A Personal Brand.” Also, Rob and Terry Adams have written a book on behalf of Entrepreneur Magazine featuring Kevin and other entrepreneurial teens called “How To Be A Teenage Millionaire” which offers business advice from Kevin as well as noted entrepreneurs Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Fred Deluca, Lillian Vernon and others.

Kevin is also the founder and President of PhotoMasteprieces.com. PhotoMasterpieces uses a patented high tech process to turn photographs into canvas oil paintings. The product has been featured on ABC, CBS, FOX, radio, newspapers, magazines, and was even named one of the Best Valentine’s Day Gifts of 2002 by NBC radio.

Colleran’s previous business ventures include Starting Page!, LiveService.com, and Cyber Marketing Solutions International. He was the Special Projects Director and member of the Board of Directors for NEATO, the do-it-yourself media labeling company with over $45 Million in sales and products available in more than 25,000 retail stores.

When not running his companies, Colleran has written articles for PLAYBOY.com and Collegiate Monthly 101 magazine covering entertainment and technology issues. He has been featured in many local and International newspapers, magazines, and online publications. He can also be heard on numerous syndicated radio shows. He is well known and respected among other entrepreneurs and even spent part of 2001 in Colorado shadowing entrepreneurial billionaire John Malone (TCI, AT&T, Liberty Media) through his daily business activities.

Kevin has become an expert in the field of college marketing and student entrepreneurship. He has received support from business leaders, congress people, and the media. He speaks regularly at conferences and summits around the world dealing with college and entrepreneurial issues.

Kevin also worked for Robb Peck McCooey Specialist Firm at the New York Stock Exchange as a specialist assistant and director of internet marketing at age 17 where he was one of the youngest persons working at the NYSE in recent history.

Kevin graduated from Babson College in May 2003 with Magna Cum Laude, Presidential Scholar, and Dean’s List honors.

Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of New Profit Inc. Vanessa has more than 17 years of experience in developing innovative solutions to social problems and is widely recognized as a leading social entrepreneur. Her experience, combined with a trip around the world in 1995 when she met with other social entrepreneurs, citizen leaders, philanthropists, and political officials, led her to start New Profit.

Prior to launching New Profit, Vanessa founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women’s Information Network. Public Allies, a national youth service organization, grew to six cities under Vanessa’s leadership and was named by the Bush Administration as one of eight model national service programs in America, and by the Clinton Administration as an official AmeriCorps national service model. The Woman’s Information Network (WIN), an organization that provides support, training, and political access to young women, grew to a membership of 2000. Prior to launching these entrepreneurial organizations, Vanessa worked with Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, a polling firm, and played a key role in several projects including a study on young people’s civic attitudes. This study, combined with her experience as a convention manager and field coordinator for the Dukakis presidential campaign, led her to start Public Allies.

Vanessa has received numerous public service awards and recognition for her work. In 2005, Ernst & Young named Vanessa “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the category of Social Entrepreneurship, an award that recognizes the innovation, vision, and tenacity of New England’s top entrepreneurs. Vanessa also has been recognized by both Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report as a leader of her generation; by Forbes as one of 15 innovators who will reinvent the future; Harper’s Bazaar as one of 30 young women to be leaders in the 21st century; by Fast Company as “Who’s Fast 2000″; and by the Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40″ as one of the most promising leaders in Boston. Additionally, she was selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) for the year 2003. Currently, Vanessa serves on the Tufts Board of Overseers to the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, and on the Board of College Summit.

Vanessa is a graduate of Tufts University where she served as a TCU Senator and student member on the Board of Trustees and currently serves on the Alumni Council.

Vanessa lives in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband, Alan Khazei, who is the founder of Be the Change, Inc., and their daughter.

Breakout Session Three
3:30PM - 4:45PM / Knight Auditorium

To be able to survey the complicated and dynamic technology environment and identify untapped opportunities requires vision, skill, and experience. Our panelists have extensive experience managing technology enterprises and are veterans in a broad range of areas.

Moderator Andrew “Zach” Zacharakis The John H. Muller, Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship Babson College	Kevin Colleran National Director of Sales Facebook, Inc. Babson Alumnus	Kevin Rollins Former CEO of Dell Senior Advisor TPG Capital, L.P.

Breakout Session One
9:30AM - 10:45AM / Knight Auditorium

Whether you call it clean-tech or green energy, it’s one of the hottest fields of innovation and venture capital investment. Our panelists are helping consumers and companies decrease consumption of non-renewable resources – and boost profits.

Moderator Anirudh Dhebar Professor Babson College	Asheen A. Phansey President Quaking Aspen	Tom Szaky CEO & Co-Founder TerraCycle, Inc.

Breakout Session One
9:30AM - 10:45AM / Olin Auditorium

Exciting technology in the biotechnology industry is being developed at a rapid pace, and as the world becomes smaller due to globalization, interesting new solutions are being developed from technology mash-ups. This panel will feature entrepreneurial healthcare leaders that will discuss new trends and opportunities in biotechnology.  Come learn the new innovative techniques from different biotechnology advancements that is changing the face of healthcare.
We will investigate how new technologies are advancing minimally-invasive surgery, evidence-based medicines, the training of physicians in new procedures in a virtual world, where therapeutic areas are likely to see the most growth over the next 5-10 years. Find out what it will take to be a top entrepreneur in biotechnology and healthcare.

Moderator Bob Caspe Founder & President The Caspe Group Entrepreneurship Lecturer Babson College	Reed Wilcox Founding Partner & Senior Managing Director General Resonance	Ingo Angermeier President & CEO Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System	Ellen Sheets, M.D. Chief Medical Officer Predictive Biosciences

Breakout Session Three
3:30PM - 4:45PM / Olin Auditorium

A new breed of company is taking off by seamlessly weaving threads of social good into the core activities of capitalism. Some are focused on the bottom line – and social benefit as secondary. Others creatively tweak big business concepts to fulfill a social mission. Panelists will discuss their firms’ business models, social benefits, and the ongoing tensions between the two.

	Moderator Candida Brush Paul T. Babson Chair in Entrepreneurship Chair of Entrepreneurship Division Babson College	Cheryl Dorsey, M.D. President Echoing Green	Sarah Di Troia Director Strategic Partnerships New Profit Inc.	Geoff Woolley Board of Directors Unitus

Panel Session Two
11:00AM - 12:15PM / Sorenson Theater

Learning about entrepreneurship is a lot different from practicing it. The members of this panel have many years – and long days and nights – worth of experience in coming up with big ideas and turning them into reality. They’ll discuss how to read the trends of the times to help generate cutting-edge ideas, as well as how to marshal the resources and people to create new companies.

Moderator Dwight Gertz Exec. Management Team Celerant Consulting Professor Babson College	Matt Lauzon Co-Founder & CEO Paragon Lake Babson Alumnus	Pete Lescoe CEO & Founder FoodShouldTasteGood Babson Alumnus	Mike Sepso Chairman & Co-Founder Major League Gaming Babson Alumnus	Ruthie Davis Designer & Creator DAVIS by RUTHIE DAVIS Babson Alumnae

Breakout Session Two
11:00AM - 12:15PM / Knight Auditorium

You have a big idea. So what do you do after you raise all the money you can from Family, Friends, and Fools? At some point every business will need additional capital. Whether it is through VC or later-stage growth investment, a thorough understanding of the parties involved is crucial to your success. This panel brings together in one room a powerful combination of seasoned professionals who are entrepreneurs, private equity experts and venture capitalists. Learn the objectives, thoughts and motives that these individuals have and how they figure into making a deal. Hear their stories, anecdotes, and tips on successful financing to become a top entrepreneur. 

Moderator Trish Costello Director The Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship	Don Jones Chairman & CEO POGAN Consulting	Kevin Rollins Former CEO of Dell Partner/Senior Advisor TPG Capital	Geoff Woolley Exec. Board / Treasurer Unitus Founding Partner

Breakout Session Three
3:30PM - 4:45PM / Needham Wellesley Room (Olin Hall)

Franchises are everywhere. Krispy Kreme, Sign-A-Rama, EmbroidMe, McDonald’s, Subway, Jiffy Lube. Have you ever wanted to buy into a franchise?  Do you know what it takes to own a franchise? Do you know how to get started?  This panel brings together in one room a franchisor, franchisee and franchise lawyer.  Learn the objectives, thoughts and motives that each have–and how they work together to create value and opportunity. Do you know what it takes to be a top entrepreneur in the franchising world? Hear their stories, anecdotes, and tips on successful franchising.

Moderator Anne Donnellon Faculty Director Babson Fast Track MBA Associate Prof. of Management Babson College	Ray Titus President & Co-Founder Sign A Rama/EmbroidMe	Roger Glickman CEO Krispy Kreme Franchising (Southern California) Babson Alumnus	Arthur L. Pressman Partner Nixon Peabody LLP Franchise Lawyer

Breakout Session One
9:30AM - 10:45AM / Sorenson Theater

Design is everything! Look at Apple. Have you ever wanted to design a product? Did you think THE BIG COMPANIES would crush you? These panelists know what it takes to turn ideas into products using design. They designed products in industries that most people would never think of entering–Shoes, Toothbrushes, and Shaving Cream. Meet these entrepreneurs who have taken their products to a whole new level–that is taking away market share from Fortune 500 companies. Learn what it takes to turn ideas into products TODAY that can compete with any big company in the world.

Moderator Paul Mulligan Associate Professor Technology, Operations & Information Management Babson College	Jamie Leventhal CEO & Founder Clio Designs	Kevin Foley President & Founder Radius Toothbrush	Ruthie Davis Designer & Creator DAVIS by RUTHIE DAVIS Babson Alumnae

Tina Kanter Moore is the Director of Fast Track Communications of the 2008 Babson Forum for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and is honored to have been asked to participate in such an inspirational event. Tina Moore is the Vice President of Development for POGAN Consulting and shares with the Babson community a lifetime of experience in retail.

Tina has grown through the ranks of the retail industry and has held a variety of management and executive positions since 1998, gaining experience in the fashion industry working with both soft and hard goods. She has extensive international experience which enhances her expertise in retail, sales management, operations and logistics/supply chain management.

Tina has launched and integrated a retail division at a classic catalogue and e-commerce firm, building the division from ground up. In addition, she has worked with diverse companies such as IKEA, Staples, Gap, and Williams Sonoma as well as several smaller development stage companies and has gained hands-on experience in real estate, store openings/closings, human resources, people development, sales management and ensuring corporate profitability. Tina has lived in several countries and speaks Danish, German, and English fluently.

Tina graduated from Davidson College in 1998 with a BA majoring in German and Sociology and is currently a 2010 Babson MBA Candidate in the Fast Track Program at Babson. She lives locally in the Boston area with her husband and two year old daughter.

Kevin was educated as an architect at one of the premier architectural schools in the world. The school was based on a vision of integrating self-disciple and innovation in all areas of life and was run by its own students. 

After graduating at the top of his class, Kevin took the skills he learned both inside and outside of the classroom at the Architectural Association in London, UK and applied them a series of recognized projects in the Caribbean. Seeking to tap into his more entrepreneurial side, Kevin and a fellow architect decided to stray from the beaten path and create their own destiny by moving to New York City and founding the RADIUS Toothbrush Corporation. Kevin set to work creating a brand for the company by focusing on the natural, boutique, and gift markets. 

As the company grew large enough to support in-house production, Kevin decided to again strike out on his own and relocate to a small farming community in Pennsylvania where he found a rundown feed mill to house the operations. Using his architectural skills to restore the mill to its original beauty, Kevin set up shop with his own injection molding, bristling and packaging machines.To support the daunting effort of learning the ins and outs of the plastics manufacturing business, Kevin commenced hiring local community members to join the Radius Family with the vision of helping grow a local business in a local way.

Twenty-five years later, Kevin is still President of RADIUS, running operations from the same restored feed mill. Kevin lives with his wife, Suze, in a 250 year old restored farmhouse surrounded by 60 acres of Pennsylvania farmland that Kevin turned into a Nature Preserve through the Pennsylvania-USDA Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program.

RADIUS® has a dedicated following of users including Sting, Cher, Whoopi Goldberg and many more.

SOURCE Toothbrush – replaceable head toothbrush with a handle that is made from recycled wood mixed with recycled post consumer plastic. Reversible for right or left hand. The replaceable head uses only 15% of the material of an ordinary toothbrush. The bristles radiate outwards towards the tips, allowing the head to be extremely small and allow increased dexterity in brushing in tight spaces. 

Mr. Neuenschwander is a Principal at H&G Capital Partners. Prior to joining H&G Capital Partners, Mr. Neuenschwander was a Principle at Sorenson Capital in Salt Lake City, UT and an Associate at Highland Capital Partners, a $1.8 billion venture capital fund based in Boston. At Highland Mr. Neuenschwander sourced, executed and managed investments. Mr. Neuenschwander was actively involved with many of Highland’s portfolio companies assisting them in strategic planning, sales management, and budgeting.

Prior to joining Highland, Mr. Neuenschwander was a member of the Communications, Media and Entertainment Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Mr. Neuenschwander completed four M&A transactions, a $1.5 billion high-yield offering, an IPO and a $1 billion follow-on equity offering. Mr. Neuenschwander also worked at Trust Company of the West, a $90 billion Los Angeles based asset management firm, where he was involved analyzing investments for the Galileo Series of mutual funds.

Mr. Neuenschwander received a Masters of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and B.S. in Psychology, summa cum laude, from Brigham Young University and was valedictorian

 
Bob Davis is a General Partner at Highland focusing primarily on digital media and the internet and has been with our team since 2001. He currently represents Highland on the boards of Going, Hangout Industries, NameMedia, Paragon Lake, Quattro Wireless and Turbineand previously served on the board of Fastclick (Nasdaq: FSTC) until its successful merger with ValueClick (Nasdaq: VCLK) and Quigo (acquired by AOL). Bob is the best-selling author of “Speed is Life: Street Smart Lessons from the Front Lines of Business (Currency).

Prior to joining Highland, Bob served as the Chief Executive Officer of Terra Lycos (TRLY) and was responsible for all aspects of the company’s business. Before the October 2000 combination of Terra and Lycos, Bob was the Founder of Lycos, Inc (LCOS) and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer since its inception in 1995. In just five years, Bob led Lycos from a start-up with $2 million in venture capital funding to a multi-billion dollar profitable business. Under his leadership, Lycos jumped from the fastest IPO in Nasdaq history, a mere nine months from inception to offering, to an esteemed member of the Nasdaq 100.

Bob has served on the boards of several public and private sector companies including John Hancock (JHFS), Ticketmaster (TCMS), Terra Lycos (TRLY), Lycos (LCOS) and Lycos Europe (LCY). He also serves as a Trustee for Children’s Hospital Trust Board, The Rivers School and also serves on the Board of Advisors for the Boston College Carroll School of Management and the Northeastern University School of Technological Entrepreneurship.

Bob has advised former President Clinton on matters relating to internet commerce and regulation and has addressed Congress, The United Nations, The National Press Corps and the U.S. Council of Foreign Relations on similar matters.

Education
Northeastern University, B.S.
Babson College, M.B.A.
Bentley College, Honorary Doctorate of Commercial Sciences
Northeastern University, Honorary Doctorate

Honors
Bob has been inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Entrepreneurs and received the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

I’m Frank Zenie.  I have  spent twenty-five years as an entrepreneur and Chief Executive, building innovative, market leading and profitable companies.  I served as President/CEO of Waters Associates (now Waters Corporation) 1969 through 1980 and co-founded Zymark Corporation in 1981, serving as its President/CEO through 1996.

I am currently an entrepreneurial coach, investor and director for a number of early-stage, technology-based companies - many healthcare related.  I also serve as Chairmans of VelQuest Corporation and Process Packaging & Control Corporation.  In addition, I am a trustee of The Zenie Foundation, a private foundation dedicated to education support for deserving students who are often unable to access traditional financial support.

My new book, StreetSmart Entrepreneuring, summarizes my entrepreneurial experiences and insights.  I intend to spend the next year or so sharing this material through university business schools entrepreneurial development organizations and private company consulting.  My goal is not to teach small business mechanics, but to develop awareness to entrepreneurial:

1. Principles          2. Passion         3. Practice

I began my formal teaching as  an MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer leading “Starting and Running a Successful Technology-based Company” and I’m  currently lecturing at several universities in addition to my corporate coaching and director roles.

I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MBA from the University of Rhode Island.  I also have been extensively published in the trade magazines.

Heidi Neck is an Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at Babson College.  She completed her Ph.D. in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001.  She holds a B.S. in Marketing from Louisiana State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Her research interests include corporate entrepreneurship, radical innovation, and entrepreneurship education.  She has published numerous book chapters, research monographs, and refereed articles in such journals asJournal of Small Business Management and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. 

Neck is on the faculty of the Price-Babson Symposium for Entrepreneurship Educators (SEE) and is the faculty director of the SEE reunion program, SEE+.  In addition, she is a co-PI on an NSF grant that has been used to develop the Babson-Olin Symposium for Engineering Educators (SyE3), which is designed to motivate engineering educators to participate in entrepreneurship education. She currently serves on the board of directors for the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship.

At Babson, she teaches new venture creation classes at the undergraduate and graduate level and has been involved in several custom education programs for companies (such as EMC, Siemens, and Intel) and universities (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Guadalajara, and InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico) . She is currently working to build an Institute for Social Entrepreneurship at the College and she is offering a new course called Social Entrepreneurship by Design. 

In 2005 Neck was awarded Babson’s “Deans’ Award for Excellence in Teaching,” a peer nominated award that reflects innovation in integrated teaching. Most recently she was award the Appel Prize presented to individuals who bring “entrepreneurial vitality to academe in the true spirit of the Price-Babson SEE program.”

Education 
B.S., Louisiana State University 
M.B.A., Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder 

Expertise 
Entrepreneurship
  Corporate Entrepreneurship
  Entrepreneurship
  New Venture Creation
  Social/Not for Profit

Andrew Zacharakis is The John H. Muller, Jr. Chair in Entrepreneurship at Babson College, Wellesley, Mass.  He is the Director of the Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference and past president of the Entrepreneurship Division of the Academy of Management.  He is also a past chair of the Entrepreneurship Department at Babson College and a past Director of the Arthur M. Blank Center for Entrepreneurship at Babson.  His writings and research focus on two major areas of entrepreneurship: the venture capital decision-making process, and entrepreneurial growth strategies. 

Zacharakis is the author of five books, Entrepreneurship (with Bygrave), Entrepreneurship: The Engine of Growth Volume 2 (with Spinelli), The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship, 3rd Edition(with Bygrave), Business Plans that Work (with Timmons and Spinelli) and How to Raise Capital(with Timmons and Spinelli).  His research has been published in numerous academic journals including: the Journal of Business Venturing; Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice; Journal of Private Equity Capital; International Trade Journal; Academy of Management Executive; Journal of Management; and Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research.  Moreover, his article, “Differing perceptions of new venture failure: A matched exploratory study of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs” was selected as the best article published by Journal of Small Business Management in 1999. 

Professor Zacharakis has taught seminars at leading companies, including Intel, Met Life, and Lucent Technologies.  He has also taught executives worldwide in such countries as Costa Rica, Chile, China, Mexico, Australia, Turkey, Spain and Germany.

Christian Crews is the founder and president of CREWSCO, a boutique business development and marketing consulting company focused on innovative consumer products. CREWSCO’s market driven product development and agressive channel strategies has been the basis for its success in servicing its clients.

Christian has over 12 years experience in business development of both consumer products and ingredients.  He worked at Givaudan, the global leader in flavors and fragrance, where he was responsible for seeking and securing new opportunities for Givaudan Fragrances Consumer Products division in North America.   Christian developed and executed strategic plans with aggressive objectives resulting in double digit growth for his account portfolio.  Previously, he was Senior Trader and Regional Manager for a commodities company, ED&F Man Group, focused on sugar, molasses and alcohol in Mexico and Central America. 

Christian received his MBA in 2003 from Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Management and his BSBA in 1996 from Boston University’s School of Management.

Havell Rodrigues is with Venus Capital Management, Inc., an institutional money management firm focused on delivering superior risk-adjusted returns from Asia. As a senior vice president, Havell focuses on business development of the firm’s hedge funds, and t